Wrong-way driver who crashed in Brooklyn, killing her 6-year-old son, was speeding and claims her brakes malfunctioned: cops

Debris on the road and a Con Ed truck, with its boom supporting a fractured utility pole, remain at the scene where a 6-year-old boy fatally injured in a crash on Seaview Ave. in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Wednesday. (Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News)

A wrong-way driver who crashed in Brooklyn, killing her 6-year-old son, was speeding and claimed her brakes malfunctioned, police sources said Thursday.

Natacha Louismard, 44, told police she lost control of her 2013 Toyota Highlander about 4:05 p.m. Wednesday while going the wrong way against traffic on Seaview Ave. near E. 80th St. in Canarsie about 4:05 p.m.

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Her son Jerry Louismard was sitting in the rear of the car but not in a car seat, a police source said.

Her Highlander hit a parked car, which careened into a second parked vehicle. One of the vehicles also slammed into a utility pole, splintering it.

Little Jerry suffered severe chest injuries. Medics rushed him to Brookdale University Hospital, but he could not be saved.